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Gabriele Gentile was born in 1986 in Parma (Italy) and after his studies in classical and humanistic fields, he approached photography as a self-taught artist, rediscovering childhood curiosities such as the semantic and aesthetic attraction for colors and the attraction for obsolete and unexplored places. He thus develops his artistic research towards the concepts of time and space, investigated in every direction -interior and exterior, past, present and future- and projected into dreamlike visions through the intense and expressive use of colors and essential and pure compositions. He has exhibited in various italian cities including Parma, Trieste, Siena and Aosta and has received international awards and publications including one in the prestigious L'Oeil de la Photographie. His series "De sidera" became a book entitled "Dust in Color," published in 2022 in a bilingual (Italian-English) version by Snap Collective Publishing. Since the same year he collaborates with DuePuntoZero Gallery, a modern and contemporary art gallery based in Bergamo.

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Deniers

Being a woman is what distinguishes a woman, in every time and place.
In this photographic series entitled "Deniers" –a unit of measurement of
the heaviness of the stocking– I wanted to represent my idea of the modern
woman, a woman who is also fragmented and divided, but who even
though she appears in these shots faceless nonetheless reveals her
womanhood and her many faces, one for every moment of her everyday
life, for every role that today's society entrusts her with, for every corner of
her emotionality.
Today there are so many tasks and missions entrusted to women, but they always manage to adapt and amalgamate chameleonically with the surrounding space, shaping it and intoning it to themselves with their female
strength, until they conquer it.
Shapes become geometry, colour becomes material, harmony becomes
beauty.

Artist Statement

Past and future are intertwined in the present of my photography,
overlapping in heterogeneous projects but united in my personal research:
photographing time in space.
The nostalgic time of the past, from which to resurrect ancient buildings
now in decay, and the fantastic time of the future, projected in minimal
visions of modern structures with futuristic shapes and abstract colors.
Space, canvas and frame at the same time, is a fundamental criterion for
me, particularly in its value as empty space. Portraits of architecture where
the lack of man is transformed into absence and portraits of people where
the emptiness of the face is replaced by the personalization of lines,
environments and colors. Color, not as an adjective but subject itself and
essential sign of my photographic alphabet.
I write about myself through the light of photography: it is a mirror of my
inner world and a compass in the endless search for beauty. A photography
of rules and exceptions, in which the fertile illusion of the futility of the
former compared to the preciousness of the latter allows the dream to
triumph over reality.